[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]

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[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]

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John Jabez Edwin Mayall

Photographer · 1813–1901

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After serving as the proprietor of a daguerreotype studio and a chemistry lecturer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, John Jabez Edwin Mayall relocated to London in 1846. He promptly obtained a daguerreotypist's license from Richard Beard, who at that time held the patent for the process in England. In April 1847 Mayall opened the American Daguerreotype Institution in London, explicitly naming it Amer

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Date
1857
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
British
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
174d227e-06eb-402e-9b85-623818a04e78

Portrait of Tennyson in tangled hair and long, pointed beard, seated at 3/4 position, with his frock coat around the chair back in which he is seated and his black, wideawake hat with its wide irregular brim resting over his left knee. He is holding an open book in his left hand.

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